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To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

~Francoise Sagan

Topics: Frightful Jealousy Laughter More Nothing Than

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It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality.

~Francoise Sagan

Topics: Another Assume Before Eyes Face Front Kinds Me People Puts Reality Seems Trickery Two Writer

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Marriage? It's like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no importance.

~Francoise Sagan

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Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.

~Francoise Sagan

Topics: Arbitrary Characters Feels Less Life Life Is A Like Much Oneself Progression Rhythmic Sort Tells Three Time

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I dreamt of being a writer once I started to read. I started to write 'Bonjour Tristesse' in bistros around the Sorbonne. I finished it, I sent it to editors. It was accepted.

~Francoise Sagan

Topics: Accepted Around Being Dreamt Editors Finished Once Read Sent Started Write Writer

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A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.

~Francoise Sagan

Topics: Dress Inspires Makes Men No Sense Off Sense Take Unless You

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Art must take reality by surprise.

~Francoise Sagan

Topics: Art Must Reality Surprise Take

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One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

~Francoise Sagan

Topics: Dangers Enough Laughter Never Power Shared Speak Virtues

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The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.

~Francoise Sagan

Topics: Books Never One Thing Read Regret The One Thing Thing Time Want Will

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Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.

~Francoise Sagan

Topics: Art Believe Close Course Exactly Formal Great Great Literature Illusion Life Literature Make Opposite True Very

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Playwright

Born: June 21st, 1935

Died: September 24th, 2004

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